Message-Id: <200210072049.g97KnnW16344@delorie.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:41:59 -0300 From: Salvador Eduardo Tropea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: es-ar, es, en To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: Turbo Vision 2.0.0 released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g97Kg2914868 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi All! Just to inform that Turbo Vision 2.0.0 was released. The .zip file containing sources (no binaries) can be downloaded from Source Forge: http://tvision.sf.net/ I already uploaded the .zip to DJ´s site so it will be also available from Simtelnet network soon. What´s TV? Turbo Vision (TVision for short) is a TUI (Text User Interface) that implements the well known CUA widgets. With TVision you can create an /intuitive/ text mode application, intuitive means it will have CUA like interface (check boxes, radio buttons, push buttons, input lines, pull-down menues, status bars, etc.). All the people acustomed to the Windows, MacOS, OS/2, Motif, GTK, etc. interfaces will understand the interface at first sight. What´s new? * Configuration files support. Now you can set options that controls TV using simple text files. They can be used to customize applications also. * Code pages support. More than 43 code pages covering the most common latin, cyrillic and greek encodings. * Fonts support. You can load upto 2 fonts. * Pseudo-drivers scheme to isolate terminal dependent details. * The DOS driver is safier. Now the library doesn´t use the "VGA BIOS save/restore state" call, it seems to be buggy in a lot of boards. The support for it can be enabled using configuration files. And more. Some extra info: +Now the library supports: * DOS, FreeBSD, Linux (console, XTerm/Eterm and X11), QNX, Solaris, Win32 (i.e. Cygwin & MinGW) * gcc, BC++ and MSVC * Alpha, PPC, SPARC and x86 (tested, I guess more are supported) + Thanks to Florian Xaver, he was the only that replied my post to the djgpp list when I asked for testing. + RHIDE doesn´t compile using TV 2.0.0, you´ll have to wait for that. + SETEdit version that compiles with it is v0.5.0 only available from cvs. SETEdit v0.4.54 won´t copile using it. + The X11 driver emulates a text mode "drawing" it, an equivalent Win32 driver using the GDI API is included but is experimental. + An Allegro driver was tested as a probe of concept and should be available in future releases. SET -- Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Alternative e-mail: set AT computer DOT org set AT ieee DOT org Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA Phone: +(5411) 4759 0013